On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:57:16PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > MariaDB is an drop in replacement for MySQL. As MariaDB has just > landed in Debian unstable it would be a good time to include it in the > dependencies as an alternative to MySQL. > > Please change in the debian/control any occurences of mysql-server and > mysql-client to "mariadb-server | mysql-server" and "mariadb-client | > mysql-client". > > This way systems that have MariaDB installed instead of MySQL can use > this package without problems. While MariaDB is at the moment only in > Debian unstable, some users might have installed it from mariadb.org > or other sources to jessie or wheezy, so it does not hurt if this > package has these dependencies updated for older Debian releases too. > > This is a very quick and safe change to do, and there is no urgency to > upload the package just for this small thing. Just update the > dependency (or suggest or recommends) lines in the debian/control file > and let the change propagate when there is something else to push too.
I will wait until the revised suggestion being discussed on debian-devel is made official (please could you consider sending a note to the bugs in question in that case?) Cheers, Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
